Christian Heilmann

Thumbs up to IBM!

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005 at 12:36 am

I nearly lost half my redesign of onlinetools.org, the half finished translation of the unobtrusive JavaScript course and lots of job-related experiments and tryouts when I was clumsy enough to spill a whole cup of coffee onto my company’s Thinkpad T40.

One hour of the opened laptop in front of a huge fan helped to boot the Bios and another half hour of the harddrive alone on the fan made it work again.

I will get me one of these as soon as I can find it at an affordable price. And yes, I did back up the data onto my USB caddy and the server.

Could it be saved by the fact that I don’t use sugar and only soy milk?

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